$77,615 Bottle Of 224-Year-Old Cognac Shattered By Clumsy Customer

Here's something groan-worthy. A customer at London's Playboy Club recently managed to destroy a $77,615 (£50,000) bottle of historic Cognac, which dated back to 1788.

The Drinks Business tells us that the customer, a businessman with apparently expensive tastes and butter fingers, had ordered two glasses of the brandy for $7,839 (£5,000) a pop when he asked to look at the bottle. When he stood up, he sent it flying across the room. It broke into smithereens upon hitting the floor.

The bottle had previously been sold for $37,000 at a Paris auction in 2009. It was supposed to have been featured this week by mixologist Salvatore Calabrese in the making of the world's most expensive!!tail for Guinness World Records.

Calabrese, a Cognac expert with an antique spirits collection valued at more than $1.5 million, expressed his horror and sadness to The Evening Standard:

Mr Calabrese said: “We all just froze, then it sunk in. I’ve been heartbroken. Not because of the value of the bottle, but because it is a piece of history that has been lost.”
Unfortunately for all, the bottle of Clos de Griffier Vieux wasn't insured because it had already been open. But, it seems the clumsy customer, a club regular, has been forgiven. "Accidents happen," Calabrese told The Evening Standard.

these people are scum of society

idc how rich you are, thats just retarded to value any liquor that high no matter how old it is imo

lmao !!ing pathetic to be "heartbroken" over a single bottle of liquor....

these people are scum of society

i bet some wine even splattered on the "No Blacks Allowed In This Est@blishment" Sign

i bet some wine even splattered on the "No Blacks Allowed In This Est@blishment" Sign

nicca betta pay up... [pic]

Fuk the wine its something older than 200 years old... Thats a treasure piece i would have loved to have in my crib. Something you can pass down for generations. Then when the world is about to end your offspring can drink it.

i bet some wine even splattered on the "No Blacks Allowed In This Est@blishment" Sign